Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-12-14
IN SCIENTIFIC VEIN.


NEW crematory in which electricity will
be the basis of incarceration is suggested by
electricians.
PLANT OF the lettuce variety growing in
profusion in France has been found to yield
under certain process very good quality
of caOutchouc.
TIE fact has been sufficiently confirmed
| that the wear and tear by rust, in uncoated
cast iron pipe exposed to the action of clean,
fresh water on both sides, is not more than
one-cighth inch in three generations.
a DEVICE for the distribution of oil for the
| quoting of a rough sea is late invention
| 1t is a hollow globe of metal, so constructed
as 10 float upright with an opening beneath
through which water enters and displaces
the oil through the top.
II an experimental test of the deleterious
effect Of freezing upon milk, the result was
| that the fatty portion OF the milk was found
! TO be contained in the ice. 1t is therefor
recommended that milk which has been
| frozen be thoroughly thawed before using.
A WRITER IN a scientific journal suggests
means of procuring views of the polar re-
| gions that is deemed within the range of
| possibility. 1t is a Photographic balloon,
| operated by electricity, to be sent up under
| favorable conditions to height command
| ing the objective POINTS.
A steel. that has been found to be almost
entirely indifferent to magnetic influ-
ence has been manufactured in Shelf
| field, England. 1t is made by what is
| known as the manganese process and a
| marked popularity Of it is, tn It transition
from heat to cold softens instead of hard
ems it.
A NOVEL mode Of extinguishing fire was
| lately put in practice in the mining regions
| of the upper peninsula of Michigan. On the
| occasion of fire in the lower levels of a
mine, carbonic acid gas was manufactured
and discharged into the mine in large guam
titles with the effect that the flames were
| speedily extinguished.
IN accounting for the saline nature of
some lakes journal of science sets forth
the probability that when the continents
| were raised from the sea, the lake basins
| were already formed, and came up,
| therefore, full of water and in the arid
regions, where salt lakes abound, the evap-
oration exceeding the suppl SOf fresh water,
reduces the quantity of water to the pro-
| portion Of saline deposit.
a DEMoNszsATIoN was recently given at
the Crystal Palace of the success of the
lucigen light, an illuminant produced from
the combustion Of crude and waste oil
! which gives the same actual candle power
as the electric light, at one-twentieth it's
| cost. According to trade paper the luci-
! gen marks the latest advance in the history
! Of the production of light from carbona-
ceous substances, as not only does it
raise the carbon particles to the most in
tense white heat, but the form of the flame
| is such as 10 retain them in that condition
for the longest period.
| An account of the manner Of making very
fine threads of glass is thus given in pa
1 per Of science: "A fragment of drawn-ou
| glass was attached by sealing wax to the
tail of an arrow made of a piece of straw a
few inches in length; the glass was heated
| to high temperature in the middle, and
while the end was held in the fingers, the
arrow was projected by cross-bow of pine
held in wise and with a trigger that could
be pulled by the foot. With every success
| full shot the thread was continuous from
the piece held in hand to the arrow 90 feet
of, glass thread 80 feet long and one
| thousandth of an inch in dian eter be-
ing obtained. The diameter was ain. .ost
perfectly uniform for the greater part Of
the length